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hamei
From over the rainbow
Who joined Feb. 24, 2004, 4:10 p.m.
Wrote the following at June 28, 2015, 5:46 a.m...
Yes ! Although we can barely keep up with the dizzying flurry of changes, after five years there really is a new version of NEdit ! And it builds easy right out of the box ! And (so far) all the usual Irixxicisms are intact ! The lazy bastards didn't re-architect it for gtk2 !

So far I'm happy with it. This is a one-hour report but hey, in these days of software that doesn't build on Irix by developers who've never heard of Motif, it's pretty cool !

The only thing I'd change is the About screen says it was built on an SGI 6600 server. Anyone got one of those ? My collection is lacking :( Maybe I'll hunt down that string and change it to Octane. Or O2. Or anything but 6600. How plebeian.

I'd dist it up but Mr Octane is undergoing puberty, so that's not a good idear. Perhaps someone else can be convinced tho ... it's cool. Mikey likes it :P
Juliet ! the dice were loaded from the start ...
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foetz
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Wrote the following at June 28, 2015, 9:44 a.m...
did you check nedit.org? that seems to be some finnish blog now or so :P

anyway what a nice surprise of course to see this revived. will grab :D
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vishnu
From Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
Who joined March 18, 2007, 3:25 p.m.
Wrote the following at June 28, 2015, 11:20 a.m...
I was a bit surprised that they let nedit.org expire, but upon further reflection I realized there is no "they" anymore, none of the Fermilab folks have had anything to do with the project since they badgered DoE into letting them GPL the code. If you read Mark Edel's slashdot interview it becomes fairly clear why. There are a tiny handful of people (myself included) who still hang around on the mailing list. If it wasn't for Scott Tringali it would surely be abandonware by now... :|
Project:
Temporarily lost at sea...
Plan:
World domination! Or something...
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TeamBlackFox
From Richmond, Virginia
Who joined Jan. 30, 2014, 5:01 p.m.
Wrote the following at June 28, 2015, 1:15 p.m...
I don't understand why one needs a GUI editor? Vi(m) never hurt nobody!
Entire collection up for sale :(
ivelegacy
From Italy
Who joined Jan. 4, 2015, 5:12 a.m.
Wrote the following at June 28, 2015, 3:42 p.m...
I have coded my personal text editor because … well because I do not like Vim at all (also because I need a codeflow editor for my debug processor, but this is an other story) :lol:

hamei wrote: The only thing I'd change is the About screen says it was built on an SGI 6600 server


hack it with an hex editor, and change the about string with something cool :D

Nano is used by gentoo, and by MacOSX, so I have compiled nano for Irix without troubles

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app-editors/nano
Homepage:      http://www.nano-editor.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nano-basics-guide.xml
Description:   GNU GPL'd Pico clone with more functionality
License:       GPL-3


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app-editors/nedit
Homepage:      http://nedit.org/
Description:   Multi-purpose text editor for the X Window System
License:       GPL-2


ummm, app-editors/nedit … umm let me see where the ebuild fetches its sources and dependencies

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...
HOMEPAGE="http://nedit.org/"
SRC_URI="mirror://gentoo/${P}.tar.bz2"
...
RDEPEND=">=x11-libs/motif-2.3:0
x11-libs/libXp
x11-libs/libXpm
x11-libs/libXt
x11-libs/libX11"
DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
|| ( dev-util/yacc sys-devel/bison )
dev-lang/perl"


ya, good dep :D
Some prowling the streets, looking for sweets from their Candyman , I'm Looking for a new IP30/Octane2
My machine got the Xbow damaged, so I swapped for a second hand Rigol-DG1032Z WaveGen/DDS@30Mhz
IP30 purposes : linux (kernel development), Irix Scientific Apps { Ansys, Catia, Pro/E, FiberSIM, AutoDYNþ }
Other Projects : { Cerberus , Woody Box , 68K-board, SWI_DBG }, discontinued Console hacks { GB , PSX1 }
Wanted Equipments : { U1732C LCR meter by Keysight, alternatives are the welcome }
hamei
From over the rainbow
Who joined Feb. 24, 2004, 4:10 p.m.
Wrote the following at June 28, 2015, 9:35 p.m...
TeamBlackFox wrote: I don't understand why one needs a GUI editor? Vi(m) never hurt nobody!

My Assistant is a neanderthal. She refuses to learn keyboard "shortcuts" or any real text editor. So, as Richard used to say, "if da nigger want da poosy, den da nigger use da graphical editor."

And saves the files in DOS format, too.

Ted is in line for building next :D
Juliet ! the dice were loaded from the start ...
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pentium
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Wrote the following at June 28, 2015, 9:49 p.m...
TeamBlackFox wrote: I don't understand why one needs a GUI editor? Vi(m) never hurt nobody!


They needed to include one of those keyboard overlays ala-Word Perfect so I can remember all the commands.
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foetz
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Wrote the following at June 28, 2015, 11:23 p.m...
ivelegacy wrote: hack it with an hex editor, and change the about string with something cool :D

this is open source, just change the code :P
for the record, 6600 is correct btw. that's the xserver's version used in 6.5
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ivelegacy
From Italy
Who joined Jan. 4, 2015, 5:12 a.m.
Wrote the following at June 29, 2015, 2:31 a.m...
hamei wrote: My Assistant is a neanderthal. She refuses to learn keyboard "shortcuts" or any real text editor. So, as Richard used to say, "if da nigger want da poosy, den da nigger use da graphical editor."


well, see my neanderthal code :lol:


it runs remotely on a linux machine, MacOSX is used like ssh console

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ESC mode, good for uart terminals, it's also running 2 debug screens, I wanted to add meta informations and crazy algorithms

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ncurses mode, plus a register collector screen on the left, it's useful when you connect this editor to a code-flow-agent

The human interface is a crap, but the whole code is free to be added all the features I want in order to avoid to adapt myself to the program, I'd rather adapt the code to my purposes. Sometimes I'd rather create it.

It has a few short cut from Nano, something like "copy", "paste", "find". It support blocks. The screen on the left slides to be hidden when you do not need it, it could be useful to show commands, or to see C functions tags, like geany, or VIM + nerd tree.

It's not completed because I am busy with other stuff (like the woody box :lol: ), but no doubts that code is already maleficent , evil neanderthal code (and it can be ported to IRIX with no troubles, I guess =P)

foetz wrote: this is open source, just change the code :P


ya, but it's a good tip when you are too lazy to recompile things on a slow machine that takes hours to complete :mrgreen:
(old RB532 taught me )
Some prowling the streets, looking for sweets from their Candyman , I'm Looking for a new IP30/Octane2
My machine got the Xbow damaged, so I swapped for a second hand Rigol-DG1032Z WaveGen/DDS@30Mhz
IP30 purposes : linux (kernel development), Irix Scientific Apps { Ansys, Catia, Pro/E, FiberSIM, AutoDYNþ }
Other Projects : { Cerberus , Woody Box , 68K-board, SWI_DBG }, discontinued Console hacks { GB , PSX1 }
Wanted Equipments : { U1732C LCR meter by Keysight, alternatives are the welcome }
wenp
From Oregon, USA
Who joined Sept. 4, 2013, 6:39 p.m.
Wrote the following at June 29, 2015, 11:25 a.m...
hamei wrote: ...after five years there really is a new version of NEdit


I noticed that the last entry in the changelog is from 2007. :)